The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens

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Cambridge University Press, 2004 M11 25 - 251 pages
The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership.

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Contents

On hospitality rereading Kants cosmopolitan right
25
The right to have rights Hannah Arendt on the contradictions of the nationstate
49
The Law of Peoples distributive justice and migrations
71
Transformations of citizenship the European Union
129
Democratic iterations the local the national and the global
171
cosmopolitan federalism
213
Bibliography
222
Index
239
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Seyla Benhabib is one of the leading political theorists in the world today and Eugene Meyer Professor at Yale University.

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